“He was up, he was up the whole time until the cops got here and stuff," said Zach Briggs, a friend of the victim and a witness to the shooting.

Briggs said he and the victim were in the park with a couple of other friends near the soccer fields when they were approached by another group of teenagers.

"We were just hanging out, waiting to find something to do," Briggs said.

He then said the shooter and his friend, whose name hasn't been confirmed by the coroner's office yet, had an exchange of words and then the suspect pulled out a handgun.

Briggs said he didn't realize at first that his friend had been shot.

“Everybody turned around and ran because of the gun," Briggs said. “He was honestly one of my best friends. He was a great guy. He would do anything you asked him to. If you needed something done, like a favor, he would just do it. He wouldn’t ask for a reason, nothing.”